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E. ROSE. BOTTLE STOPPBR.

No. 580,510; .PatentedApr. 13, 1897.,

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UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMMA ROSE, OF COLOGNE, GERMANY.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 580,510, datedApril 13,1897. Application filed February 24, 1896. Serial No. 580,509- (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMMA ROSE, a subject of the King of Prussia, GermanEmperor, and a resident of 38 Hausaring, Cologne, in Rhenish Prussia,Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Stoppers for Bottles, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein tothe accompanying drawings.

Hitherto it has been impossible to guard against the risk of fullbottles being opened by unauthorized persons during their conveyancefrom one place to another. This has been universally regarded as a greatdraw back, especially when considerable time was taken up in thetransport.

The bottle-stoppers in use up till now, both corks and the so-calledpatent stoppers, have been tried and found wanting so far as protectingthe contents of the bottles from being tampered with was concerned. Ithas been comparatively easy for dishonest persons to open the bottles,abstract part of their con tents, fill up the empty space with water,and replace the stopper without anyone being the wiser. I

The present invention does away with this drawback. When a bottle corkedwith one of these contrivances is opened, the latter is immediately andcompletely destroyed.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings shows a closed bottle; Fig. 2, alongitudinal section of an open bottle; Fig. 3, an upper View of Fig. 1;Figs. 4 and 5, the arrangement of the cork stopper.

The stopper in general consists of a cork suspended by means of a hookor a similar contrivance from a bow a b. The cork may be of any shape.It has a slit in about the first third of its length, and is thusdivided in such a manner that there are two corks, which are only joinedin the layers 0 to the right and left of the slit. In the slit is aninserted piece of metal f, the ends of which 9 project from the cork andbend upward. The bows it serve to suspend the stopper in the closingbow. The full bottle is now corked with the stopper, the part 00 beingpushed through the bows h, and the closure is finished by laying b inthe front hooked part of a.

When the bottle is opened, the two parts 0 d of the cork are separatedfrom each other in the plane a, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the stopperis completely destroyed. The part (1 is then drawn out with thecorkscrew.

The brand of the firm may be burned into the bottom of the cork.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

Stopper for bottles for preventing their contents being tampered With,consisting of a cork slit at right angles to its longitudinal diameter,and having a metal plate f in said slit, and a bow attached to saidplate, whereby on opening the bottle the upper part of the cork abovethe slit is torn off, thus making the stopper useless.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

EMMA ROSE.

Witnesses:

J. GREIR, WILLIAM H. MADDEN.

